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Although the Hughes Welder has not been manufactured for several years now, Advanced Integrated Technologies Inc ( AIT ) still supplies electrodes and new replacement welders for the obsolete Hughes Welder designs. Today we distribute and recommend the Avio welder and the Sunstone Welder, both of which are excellent replacements for the obsolete Hughes Welder. Request a quote from us today on a welder, electrodes, or any other items you may need related to micro welding or soldering. Our customer support team is standing by.

Advanced Integrated Technologies Inc ( AIT ) has been building electrodes and hot bar thermodes for all styles and models of the Hughes Welder, as well as all other brands of welders and hot bar bonding machines, since 1982. Our product line includes many standard designs of parallel gap and opposed electrodes. We also manufacture many designs of hot bar and fold up thermodes for reflow soldering and heat seal bonding. AIT’s products are top quality and very economical by comparison to those of original equipment manufacturers. Much of our business involves custom design and manufacturing of electrodes and thermodes for customers requiring special applications. If you are running the Hughes Welder or any other welding or soldering equipment, call us today for more information.

The concept for using welding technology for interconnection of electronic connections was first proposed by a Hughes’ Aircraft research scientist in 1954. Hughes Aircraft went on to develop and manufacture the Hughes Welder under the Hughes Technology Products Division of the Hughes Industrial Electronics Group in Carlsbad, California.

Advanced Integrated Technologies Inc came on the micro welding scene in about 1982. Hughes was developing a microparallel gap welding tool called a duo tip. They were unable to get these micro tools successfully built anywhere in California. Paul Balentine, founder of AIT, successfully built the micro tools by grinding them on a lathe fitted with a tool post grinder. Later when he had secured the contract he built a specialized grinding station with a camera and overlay system to control the grinding process. AIT was the first to build these micro parallel gap welding electrodes for the Hughes Welder, and continues to be the industry leader today.

In the 1970's, Palomar Technologies was established within the Assembly and Test Products line of Hughes Aircraft Industrial Products Division. For a while the Hughes Welder was often called the Palomar Hughes Welder. Eventually through a series of mergers and acquisitions, the core Hughes Welder technology was absorbed into the Unitek Miyachi product line which still operates today. Advanced Integrated Technologies Inc ( AIT ) supplies resistance welding electrodes and reflow solder tips for Unitek Miyachi welders and reflow soldering machines. There are however many Hughes and Palomar Hughes Welders still in use today, which is why AIT is the largest and most well known supplier of tools for these machines.

Advanced Integrated Technologies Inc ( AIT ) has a standard product line, but is not limited to that product line alone. Over 50% of our business is designing and building custom tools for customers’ unique applications. Our combination of manufacturing experience and efficiency allow us to build affordable tools for the Hughes Welder and Unitek style welders and soldering machines.

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Advanced Integrated Technologies is essentially a manufacturing service company with two major divisions. The resistance welding and reflow soldering tool division grew out of our early work building micro tools for Hughes Aircraft. About the time that Microsoft was turning computers into a household item, computer hardware manufacturers were looking for companies to build reflow tools used in the assembly of hard drives and other components. The major players like Seagate found A.I.T. and we quickly grew into the industry leader, building more reflow tools and resistance welding electrodes than any other single manufacturer. We still hold that position today.

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Advanced Integrated Technologies will be exhibiting February 9-11, 2016 at the MD&M West (Medical Design and Manufacturing) show in Anaheim California. We will have both hot bar soldering equipment and fine resistance spot welding equipment on display. We will also be showing our new two position rotary indexer at the show this year. http://www.a-i-t.com/hot-bar-so…/two-position-rotary-indexer . Come see us at booth 2295 !

Typically when a customer approaches Advanced Integrated Technologies about buying a new spot welder we recommend doing some test welds. Some welding applications are straight forward and we can recommend a welder that will do the job. But in many cases the application isn't straight forward, and we like to make sure that we are providing a welder that will give the expected results. At AIT we offer free test welds to anyone that is shopping for a new spot welder. You can find more information about spot welders by going to http://www.a-i-t.com/resistance-welding-equipment and reading about the different kinds of welders and what applications they are used for.

Advanced Integrated Technologies offers CNC machining service for a variety of industries. We utilize both CNC milling centers and 5 axis CNC turning centers to complete our customer requirements and deliver products on time. AIT has recently acquired a new optical measuring device called a Smart Scope. This, combined with our CMM capabilities, as well as other standard measurment methods, helps us insure that customer's products are built to spec the first time. Contact AIT today to inquire about our CNC machining services and to request a quote. http://www.a-i-t.com/cnc-machining-services

Let's face it, the hot bar soldering process isn't usually quick. It takes whatever time it takes, whether that's 5 seconds per cycle or 25 seconds. But one way to get more volume through your hot bar soldering equipment is to decrease the time between soldering cycles. The time during which an operator is unloading a finished product and loading the components for the next cycle, is essentially wasted time. By using a rotary indexer with indential nests on each side of the table, you can have the operator loading and unloading product WHILE the soldering cycle is taking place. Take a look at the two position rotary indexer offered by Advanced Integrated Technologies on this page http://www.a-i-t.com/hot-bar-soldering-equipment/two-position-rotary-indexer and you'll see how efficient this method can be. http://www.a-i-t.com/hot-bar-soldering-equipment

ACF Bonding is different from hot bar soldering. Even though they use the same type of equipment, ACF bonding requires a higher degree of planarity and also typically requires more pressure. You need to run the calculations for how much pressure is required for the anisotropic conductive film that you'll be using and make sure the Hot Bar equipment you are looking at will apply enough force. Since pressure is force divided by area, larger hot bars require a lot more force to achieve enough pressure. Hot bars up to 6" long can require a few hundred pounds of force. Keep this in mind and do the math when you look at ACF bonding equipment. Learn more about this at http://www.a-i-t.com/hot-bar-soldering-equipment/acf-bonding